Read this if you make videos with Claude.
I built a skill that cut my QA cost on this video from $127 to 16 cents. It was made with Claude in Remotion.
It's called SageCut. It swaps the LLM out of frame-by-frame QA and uses a multimodal decision model, Sage (
@levantolabs), instead.
I'm the only video guy at Levanto. I run 3 Claude plans and have been making Remotion videos since early this year, with BlenderMCP in the mix, so the output is pro-grade with very little babysitting.
The problem: it burned through my Max plan, and a video could take 2 days.
When I dug into the workflow, the reason was that Claude subagents were reviewing every single frame. That cost a ton and added 4+ hours per video.
SageCut hands that step to Sage. Sage is great at spotting defective frames, and only those get passed to Opus 5.5 to fix.
Across 6 A/B tests the output was exactly the same, at 1/10 the QA cost and 1/4 the QA time. On this video, Sage read all 3,153 frames for 16 cents.
If you make Remotion videos, try it.
The link to skill is below.
How long does a Remotion video take you right now with Claude?